The Romantic Self
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 25 May 2026
- 30 July 2026
- ISBN:
- 9781009571517
- 9781009571531
- 9781009571555
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.545kg, 266 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.39kg, 266 Pages
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Book description
The Early German Romantics elaborated a highly original philosophical-political framework where subjectivity is not construed as essentially the property of an isolated individual having control over other people and over nature. Rather, each subject can exist and flourish only within a web of harmonious relations of mutual dependency which connects it with history, with other people, and with the natural world. The implications of such a conception for our notion of individual and collective autonomy and for political life are radical. This book explains and analyses this novel way of thinking, places it in its historical context, and brings out some of the major consequences it has for our social life, and in particular for a number of issues of special contemporary relevance such as gender and ecology.
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‘In The Romantic Self, Giulia Valpione offers an original and compelling reading of German Romanticism. Valpione convincingly connects her detailed account of the romantic subject to key topics of the period that have not received the attention they deserve: freedom, politics, nature, and issues of gender. Her work casts German Romanticism in an exciting new light and deserves careful study.'
Elizabeth Millán-Brusslan - DePaul University
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